Latest Census city estimates released May 14, 2026 · Population as of July 1, 2025 · Next city estimates scheduled for May 2027. Release schedule
Boca Raton, Florida population is 101,582 as of July 1, 2025 (U.S. Census Bureau Vintage 2025 estimate), ranking #335 nationally and #24 in Florida. Cost of living runs 14% above the U.S. average (BEA RPP 2024); the four-person spending scenario corresponds to modeled gross income of $140,682/yr (TY2026 tax assumptions; partial scenario excluding unverified local income tax). This profile draws on 13 federal datasets covering population, housing, income, employment, climate, and risk.
101,582 people live in Boca Raton as of July 1, 2025 (U.S. Census Bureau Population Estimates Program, Vintage 2025), the #335 largest U.S. city.
How big is Boca Raton?
Boca Raton covers 29.2 square miles of land and 2.4 square miles of water. Its population density is about 3,481 residents per square mile of land. Compare U.S. cities by land area →
Source detail: 2025 population
2025 population
Source agency
U.S. Census Bureau, Population Division
Dataset
Census PEP
Vintage / period
Vintage 2025 (Jul 1, 2025)
Native geography
Census PEP subcounty place records for the included city universe.
Transformation
Copied from POPESTIMATE2025, joined by Census GEOID, and used for ranks, filters, and city pages.
Known limit: Annual estimate, not a decennial count; each new PEP vintage can revise the prior series.
Population grew 4.2% from the April 2020 base to mid-2025.
Vintage 2025 · annual estimates
Recent history (V2025 series, 2020 base → 2025).
2020 base: 97,444 → 2025: 101,582 (+4.2%)
Year
Population
Reference date
2020 base
97,444
April 1, 2020
2020
98,240
July 1, 2020
2021
98,851
July 1, 2021
2022
100,586
July 1, 2022
2023
101,657
July 1, 2023
2024
101,921
July 1, 2024
2025
101,582
July 1, 2025
Earlier history (2010–2019, prior Census vintage)
These figures come from the U.S. Census Bureau’s Vintage 2019 release — a separate, earlier methodology. They’re shown here as historical context only; the 2010 and 2019 values aren’t directly comparable to the 2020–2025 series above.
Population grew 17.2% from the July 2010 estimate to 2019 (V2019 — see seam note below).
Boca Raton is the #335 largest of 19,483 U.S. cities and #24 in Florida.
▸Show the analyst detail (9 rows)
Measure
Value
Note
2020 base
97,444
April 1, 2020 census base
5-yr change
+4,138
2020 base → 2025; within V2025
5-yr change %
+4.2%
within V2025 only
1-yr change
-339
2024 → 2025 estimate
1-yr change %
-0.3%
within V2025 only
Density
3,481
people per sq mi, land only
Land area
29.2
sq mi (2025 Gazetteer)
U.S. rank by population
#335
of 19,483 cities
State rank by population
#24
of 411 in Florida
What is the median household income in Boca Raton?
Same-period U.S. benchmarks: household income $80,734 ± $166; per-capita income $44,673 ± $122. Margins are at 90% confidence. Comparison badges describe point estimates; they are not significance tests.
Median household income is 32% above the U.S. median ($106,273 vs $80,734); 10.0% live in poverty, 2.5 points below the 12.5% U.S. estimate.
Median household income$106,273
US
Boca Raton: $106,273 — 32% above the US median of $80,734.
Scale: 10th–90th percentile of cities with ACS income data; censored rows retained in the distribution
Boca Raton
$106,273
United States
$80,734
Income and poverty estimates for Boca Raton from the U.S. Census Bureau's American Community Survey (ACS) 5-Year estimates (window 2020–2024). Every figure is shown with its 90% margin of error (MOE). Cells where the ± margin exceeds half the estimate are flagged "low precision." See methodology §12.
Measure
Estimate
± margin / note
Median household income
$106,273+31.6% vs US
±$6,300
Per capita income
$76,039+70.2% vs US
±$3,859
Population in poverty
10.0% ± 1.3 percentage points
share of population for whom poverty status is determined
Median home value is 117% above the U.S. median ($722,700 vs $332,700); median rent is 77% above ($2,508 vs $1,413); the ratio of median home value to median household income is 6.8× versus 4.1× nationally; this compares two distributions and does not measure an individual household's housing burden.
Median home value$722,700
US
Boca Raton: $722,700 — 117% above the US median of $332,700.
Scale: 10th–90th percentile of cities with ACS home-value data; censored rows retained in the distribution
HUD 2-BR fair-market rent$2,254/mo
US
Boca Raton: $2,254/mo — 109% above the US median of $1,077/mo.
Scale: 10th–90th percentile of cities with a HUD Fair Market Rent
Same-period U.S. benchmarks: home value $332,700 ± $236; gross rent $1,413 ± $2. Comparison badges describe estimates and do not establish statistical significance.
Measure
Estimate
± margin / note
Median value, owner-occupied units
$722,700+117.2% vs US
±$23,292
Median gross rent
$2,508+77.5% vs US
±$116
HUD Fair Market Rent, 2-BR (FY2026)
$2,254+11.3% vs US
West Palm Beach-Boca Raton, FL HUD Metro FMR Area· 40th-percentile gross rent · HUD methodology
Owner-occupied share
65.7% ± 1.9 percentage points
of occupied housing units
Price-to-income ratio
6.8x± 0.46x approximate 90% MOE+65.0% vs US
median home value ÷ median household income · U.S. ratio: 4.1x
Rent-burdened (≥30% of income)
65.9% ± 6.2 percentage points+28.9% vs US
renters with a computed rent/income ratio · U.S. share: 51.1%
Severely rent-burdened (≥50%)
36.2% ± 4.3 percentage points+39.7% vs US
renters with a computed rent/income ratio · U.S. share: 25.9%
Poverty (Census SAIPE 2024, model-based), unemployment (BLS LAUS 2025 annual averages), and remote-work share (ACS 2020–2024) for Boca Raton. Numbers are labeled at their native grain — place-grain when BLS publishes it, otherwise per-county. We do not compute population-weighted county averages. See methodology §13.
Measure
Value
Grain
Unemployment rate (annual avg)
4.2%
Boca Raton (BLS sub-state LAUS)
Civilian labor force
49,758
2025 annual avg
Worked from home
23.5% ± 2.0 percentage points+55.6% vs US
share of workers 16+ working from home · U.S. share: 15.1% · ACS
County context — Boca Raton sits in Palm Beach County:
County
Poverty rate
Median HH income
Unemployment
Palm Beach County
11.7%
$84,857
3.9%
Top industries by private employment — NAICS supersectors rolled up from Boca Raton's linked county in the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics' Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages (QCEW, 2025 annual averages). See methodology §11.
#
Industry (NAICS supersector)
Private employment
Avg weekly wage
#1
Health care and social assistance (62)
103,471
$1,345 / wk
#2
Retail trade (44-45)
78,241
$913 / wk
#3
Accommodation and food services (72)
72,991
$721 / wk
#4
Professional and technical services (54)
56,706
$2,315 / wk
#5
Administrative and waste services (56)
54,099
$1,309 / wk
What workers earn in the Miami-Fort Lauderdale-West Palm Beach, FL metro — top occupations by employment plus six curated benchmarks (registered nurse, software developer, elementary teacher, general manager, retail salesperson, truck driver). Wages are metro-area medians from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics' Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics (May 2025). See methodology §25.
Retail Salespersons is the largest tracked occupation in the Miami-Fort Lauderdale-West Palm Beach, FL metro (91,370 jobs, median $34,330/yr).
▸Show all 13 occupations
Occupation
Employment
Median annual
Median hourly
Customer Service Representatives
63,440
$39,560
$19.02
Office Clerks, General
61,160
$44,730
$21.51
Waiters and Waitresses
57,830
$36,070
$17.34
Fast Food and Counter Workers
56,900
$29,600
$14.23
Cashiers
56,340
$30,250
$14.54
Laborers and Freight, Stock, and Material Movers, Hand
48,860
$38,580
$18.55
Stockers and Order Fillers
45,270
$36,110
$17.36
Retail Salespersons · benchmark
91,370
$34,330
$16.50
General and Operations Managers · benchmark
74,960
$105,640
$50.79
Registered Nurses · benchmark
61,670
$91,380
$43.93
Heavy and Tractor-Trailer Truck Drivers · benchmark
29,060
$51,580
$24.80
Elementary School Teachers, Except Special Education · benchmark
All items run 14.2% above the U.S. average (RPP 114.2); rents run 55.6% above (RPP 155.6) — the metro's housing premium is the main driver.
Cost of living (RPP, all items)RPP 114.2
US
Boca Raton's cost of living runs 14.2% above the U.S. average (RPP 114.2 vs 100).
Scale: 10th–90th percentile of metro/non-metro areas with a BEA price parity
BEA Regional Price Parity (all items)
RPP 114.2
+14.2% vs U.S. average · BEA 2024 · Miami-Fort Lauderdale-West Palm Beach, FL metro
HUD Fair Market Rent, 2-BR
$2,254/mo
FY2026 · West Palm Beach-Boca Raton, FL HUD Metro FMR Area
State income tax (top marginal rate)
0%
no state income tax · TY2026
Four-person monthly spending scenario
$11,724/mo
3BR rent + food + childcare + taxes + transport · federal sources; excludes unverified local income tax
One-person monthly spending scenario
$4,939/mo
1BR rent + food + taxes + transport · federal sources; excludes unverified local income tax
Local income tax
—
Unverified and excluded from the spending scenario; not a verified zero
Household budget figures are arithmetic floors using current federal sources at the grains documented in methodology. Not a recommended salary, not a poverty threshold, not a composite score.
20.4% ± 1.8 percentage points foreign-born (U.S. share 14.1%); Spanish is the most-spoken language at home other than English (12.0% of residents 5+).
A quick read on Boca Raton's residents — nativity and languages spoken at home shown above, from the ACS 5-Year 2020–2024. The full demographic breakdown (age, race and ethnicity, household types, and educational attainment, each with its margin of error) lives on the demographics page.
Hottest month: August (91°F avg high). Coldest: January (59°F avg low). Annual precipitation: 61.7 in.
30-year climate normals (1991-2020) for Boca Raton from the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. See methodology §15 for the gridded vs. station source path.
Average monthly highs & lows · 30-year normal (NOAA 1991–2020). Every number on this chart is an average.
bar = avg daily high → avg daily lowprecip in inches below each barprecip in millimeters below each bar
Composite risk score: 99.2/100 — Relatively High nationally; top hazard: Hurricane (99.9).
Natural-hazard exposure for Boca Raton from the U.S. Federal Emergency Management Agency's National Risk Index (FEMA NRI December 2025 v1.20.0). NRI is an expected-annual-loss composite calibrated on 1996–2019 historical losses, published at the U.S. county grain. See methodology §17.
County
NRI composite
Rating
Top hazards
Palm Beach County
99.2
Relatively High
Hurricane 99.9 Very High · Lightning 99.8 Very High · Riverine Flooding 98.9 Relatively High
Source: FEMA National Risk Index · FEMA NRI December 2025 v1.20.0 · methodology →
How fast is home internet in Boca Raton?
13 non-satellite ISPs serve the area; 92% of locations have gigabit-capable service per ISP filings.
Fixed broadband availability for Boca Raton from the U.S. Federal Communications Commission's Broadband Data Collection (BDC), as of December 31, 2025. Every speed and provider count below is an ISP-reported advertised maximum — not measured throughput. Actual delivered speeds typically run 60–80% of advertised. See methodology §16.
Measure
Value
Note
Providers serving this city
13 + satellite
distinct ISPs, excluding satellite-only
Fiber providers
12
offer fiber-to-the-premises somewhere in the BDC
Units with ≥100/20 Mbps fixed
100.0%
share of broadband-serviceable units, ISP-reported max
Locations with ≥100 Mbps upload
91.8%
derived: max(fiber ≥100/20, gigabit). Fiber is symmetric; gigabit is ≥100 up by definition
Units with ≥1 Gbps fixed
91.8%
share of broadband-serviceable units, ISP-reported max
Total broadband-serviceable units
59,736
residential locations in the FCC Fabric (not households)
Source: FCC BDC · as of December 31, 2025 · methodology →
In-state context.
Boca Raton sits at state rank #24 among 411 cities in Florida. Nearby in the state ranking:
Just above in the profiled set: Inglewood, CA · #334 · 101,662 residents.
Just below in the profiled set: Fort Myers, FL · #336 · 101,581 residents.
Quick travel facts for Boca Raton
Quick travel facts.
Elevation
15 ft · at city centroid, from USGS 3D Elevation Program
Nearest scheduled-service airport
Fort Lauderdale Hollywood International Airport(FLL) · 21 mi 34 km from city centroid
Best months to visit
Jan, Feb, Dec · months when the avg high sits in 65–80°F and precipitation is at or below the city's median monthly precip
Sources: elevation from USGS 3DEP · nearest airport from OurAirports CSV (OurAirports type=large/medium and scheduled_service=yes; not an FAA service classification) · best months derived from NOAA 1991-2020 normals · methodology →
Frequently asked questions about Boca Raton.
How many people live in Boca Raton, FL?
Boca Raton has 101,582 residents as of July 1, 2025, making it the #335 largest city in the United States and #24 in Florida. Source: U.S. Census Bureau Population Estimates Program, Vintage 2025.
Is Boca Raton growing or shrinking?
Boca Raton has grown 4.2% since the April 2020 census baseline, adding 4,138 residents. The most recent year ticked down slightly (−339 residents, −0.3% from 2024 to 2025). Source: Census PEP Vintage 2025.
What was Boca Raton's population in the 2020 census?
The GEOID for Boca Raton is 1207300. These are the official datasets used by this profile's main data modules; click "methodology" for inclusion rules and the V2019 ↔ V2025 seam, or "source" for the raw publisher page. The headline population value above includes a source-detail disclosure with publisher, dataset, vintage, native geography, transformation, and caveat.
